Joseph park



l UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOSEPH PARK, JR., OF TULLY, NElV YORK, ASSIGNOR OE IllTO-THIRDS TO ERNEST JOHNSON AND WILLIAM L. EARLE, BOTH OE SAME PLACE.

PACKING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,784, dated January 13, 1891. Application filed August 29, 1890. Serial No. 363,423 (No model.)

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J osEPH PARK, Jr., of Tully, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Packing Devices, of which the following, taken in `connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear7 and p exact description.

This invention relates to the class of packing devices which are employed to tie together the side rails of bedsteads preparatory to shipping the saine; and the invention has special reference to that species of packing devices which are applied to the side rails of bedsteads having hooks on their ends for con necting them to the bedeposts. Said packing devices heretofore consisted of wire ties passing through orifices in the hooks of the side rails and through holes or grooves in blocks interposed between the hooks.

The object of this invention is to dispense with the perforation of the'hooks and to provide a tie which shall be easily applied and shall be complete in itself and retained in shape, so that it may be used repeatedly; and to that end the invention consists in the combination, with the side rails having hooks projecting from their ends, of a tie-loop encompassing the hooks of corresponding ends of the rails, and a key inserted between the hooks and passing through the loop between the top and bottom cross-bars thereof, as hereinafter more fully explained, and set forth in the claim.

The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l is a top plan view of the end portions of two rails tied together by my irnproved packing devices. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. Ll is a detail view of the tie-loop, and Fig. 5 is an edge view of the key or Wedge.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spending parts.

I denotes a tie-loop, preferably formed of wire bent into the shape of a square or rectangular loop, as best seen in Fig. fl of the drawings. When the wire is of sufficient stiffness and strength, the ends thereof need not be united; but when the wire is thin or weak I prefer to tie the ends thereof together. Said tie-loop is of a proper size to receive through it and completely encompass the two hooks 7L 7L of corresponding ends of the rails R R and leave a space between said rails. 6o

In applying the packing device the tie-loop I is slipped onto the aforesaid hooks, so as to lie closely to the ends of the rails R R, .and then a key or wedge cis inserted between the hooks h h and between the top and bottom cross-bars of the tie-loop in such a manner as to bring the top cross-bar between the key c and ends of the rails and carry thelower crossbar of the loop across the outer side of the key. Said key is of such a length and width 7o that when driven in tightly it extends some distance below the tie-loop and bears against the ends of the rails R R, and at the same time crowds the tie-loop snugly against the tops and bottoms of the hooks and the latter against the sides of the tie-loop, and thus the packing devices are held firmly in place.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the rails R R, having hooks 71, 7i projecting from their ends, of the tie-loop I, encompassing said hooks, and the key c, inserted between said hooks and passing through the loop I between the top and bottom cross-bars thereof, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 26th day of August, 1890.

.IosEPII PARK, JR. [n s] Witnesses:

HORACE K. KING, ERNEST J oHNsoN, 

